What Good Is All Of This High Tech If Drivers Never Take The Time To Learn It?

January always arrives with an avalanche of new automotive technology, courtesy of both CES in Las Vegas and the North American International Auto Show, underway right now in Detroit. Much of the chatter in CES focuses on the arrival (sooner, later, or waaaay later) of autonomous vehicles, while Detroit tends to play up the sheet metal and the performance of new cars and trucls. Both, however, are also reliable showcases of all the not-quite-autonomous safety and convenience tech that’s creeping into our cars and is meant not only to take the stress out of driving, but make us better at it.

Detroit Auto Show Photo Gallery

But here’s a thought: Is all this stuff doing what it’s really intended to?

bw5011 - 1/16/2018 12:44:13 PM

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What in the world is that screen on the passenger side of that BMW? Please tell me that is not really how that interior looks. SMH

zlives - 1/16/2018 3:03:36 PM

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its the guys mobile phone for maps...

bw5011 - 1/16/2018 9:20:31 PM

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That's the biggest phone ever. That's ultabook size. Guess he never head of car play or applewhatever or just using Cortana or Waze through bluetooth that give you turn by turn. Thanks for the insight though...

TomM - 1/16/2018 2:40:48 PM

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In the USA - most people do not even know how they should apply the brakes when they have ANti-Lock brakes (AS almost all do) - so the idea that they will easily take to new features depends on how much input they need to provide.